Color quenching in 'environmentally friendly' cocktails

Health Physics

Volumn 73, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 808-813

  Meechan, Paul J ^a   Bhatt, Vipul A ^a,b  

^a MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Exposure, occupational; Instrumentation; Liquid scintillation cocktail; Wipe tests

Indexed keywords

ALKYLBENZENE; BROMOPHENOL BLUE; CARBON 14; ETHIDIUM BROMIDE; FLUORESCEIN; FLUOROCHROME; HOE 33342; NAPHTHALENE DERIVATIVE; TARTRAZINE; THIAZOLE DERIVATIVE; XYLENE;

ARTICLE; COLOR; FLUORESCENCE; INSTRUMENTATION; LIQUID SCINTILLATION COUNTING; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION; SPECTROMETRY;

EID: 0030860209     PISSN: 00179078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004032-199711000-00009     Document Type: Article

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